Category: clay

It rattles! It started this little friend in a workshop back in April. Of course being the slow worker that I am, I wanted to […]

Back from the beach! We spend a wonderful week at Alligator Point, Fl. We had the beach to ourselves, it was a wonderful time to […]

I think this is my fifth pitcher attempt? The actual form is quite good and I can tell I’m making progress with the construction of […]

I finally made something we actually need! I accidentally broke the soap dish we used in the shower a few months ago and have been […]

Every spring, I love entering a piece into our Knox County Art Educators Show. The exhibit is held at UT’s Downtown Gallery and it’s such […]

I created my own glaze transfers for these plates. The designs were created on newsprint paper and the colors had to be layered in reverse. […]

This is only my second hand-built lidded vessel. Unfortunately the lid is wonky. I had made two lids and I dropped the lid that was […]

I love making pitchers because it’s a challenge at almost every step of the process. I pretty much hold my breathe until the piece comes […]

During the first class of each new hand building session we usually make something with pinch pots. Honestly, I think this might be my favorite […]

My turtle and a piece by one of my fantastic students was accepted into the juried Dogwood Arts 2025 Synergy Student Art Show this spring. […]

I love making these hand-built scalloped bowls. I made sure to emphasize the textured side lines as i did the imprints. I also wanted the […]

I took a fun underglaze transfer workshop a couple of weeks ago. I’ve done this process several times before but because there’s so many steps, […]

This tile and my previous tile were both slab rolled back in November. But due to life getting busy around the end of the semester […]

In late November, myself and some friends took a clay Christmas tree workshop at my studio. They were glazed just in time for the holidays […]

I made this mug using a brown clay but I really liked the idea of doing black and white underglaze on top, with the brown […]

I took a pumpkin workshop at my studio at the end of September, this time several friends joined me. It was so fun to make […]

I made this guy during one of the nights of my previous hand-building session. I so enjoyed going back to the monoprinting process with slip, […]

I’ve decided to make and add more ceramic Jack O’Lanterns to my collection since I took my first pumpkin workshop two years ago. All four […]

Back in August, I took a lidded vessel workshop. I might have once attempted to make a lidded vessel in a throwing class – I […]

This is attempt number two in hopes of recreating a pitcher similar to the one I made last August. The first attempt I constructed upside […]